Hello YOSAL Family and Friends! It’s that time of year – we are participating, once again, in the Monterey County Gives! campaign. YOSAL is one of the many non-profits that you can give to through MC Gives. Please click the link below and choose Youth Orchestra Salinas (alphabetized under “Education & Youth”) and enter the amount you’d like to give. Thank you so much for your support!

The Carmel Bach Festival is presenting a Family Concert tomorrow at Ariel Theatrical (320 Main St) in downtown Salinas – “The Epic Adventures of Leonard and Rasmus Around the World.” The concert will be narrated in Spanish by Robert Gomez, and YOSAL will also be featured on a few of the performances. Come on out and join us for this fun, family event! Saturday, 11/5/16 @ 4pm at Ariel Theatrical. Tickets are $10. Visit the Carmel Bach Festival website for more info.

Check out our latest newsletter to see what’s been going on in YOSal over the past few months, as well as some exciting recent news! On the last page, you can also view our upcoming events and concerts. Huge “Thank You!” to Arturo Rios, one of our awesome Program Assistants, for his hard work on the newsletter design! Click the link below to read and see the full newsletter. (A Spanish version of the newsletter will be ready soon, as well!)

Many, many thanks to The D’Addario Foundation for the 2 huge boxes of woodwind reeds and accessories as part of the Foundation’s Giveaway! Our wind students were so happy. They said it felt like Christmas!

Woodwind students opening the free boxes of wind accessories from The D’Addario Foundation.

We’ve been in contact with you already, but just a reminder – we will start our new year on Monday, August 29th at our NEW location – CSUMB @ North Salinas (entrance on 111 Navajo Dr). Students from the Alisal District (Chavez and Sanchez Schools) will join us on Tuesday, September 6th also at our new location. Our Parent Info Meeting (for Orchestra and Pre-Orchestra only) will be held at our new location – CSUMB @ North Salinas – on Monday, August 29th @ 6:30pm inside the cafeteria. (Please check our calendar for start dates and parent meetings for our Juniors programs.) As always, if you have any questions, please contact us at (831) 756-5335 or info@yosal.org